So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

It's not a competition, it's a doorway.

Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.